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Happy Feet (2006) U n 2Pm, ITV2 HHH

Emperor penguins use song to attract their mates, but Mumble (above) just can’t carry a tune – but boy, can he dance. A family-friendly animation voiced by an all-star cast. Singin’ In The Rain (1952) U ●

2.35Pm, bbc2

This toe-tapping musical from codirectors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly is utterly joyous. Kelly also plays Don Lockwood, the silent-film star who takes drastic action to keep his career afloat at the advent of the talkies. Together with chorus-line girl Kathy (Debbie Reynolds) and back-room boy/best pal Cosmo (Donald O’Connor), he hatches a plan to produce a musical extravaganza.

Mother’s Day (2016) 12 ◆

4.15Pm, ch4

Showing on the day itself, this romcom celebrates mums everywhere. Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts are among the stars.

Poms (2019) 12 ◆

6Pm, sky PrEmIErE

Diane Keaton is joined by Jacki Weaver and Rhea Perlman at a retirement village for a feel-good comedy, with added pompoms. Keaton and her new friends form a cheerleading troupe, proving that being old doesn’t mean you can’t have bounce.

Hidden Figures (2016) PG ●

9Pm, fIlm4

Uplifting historical drama about the black female engineers and mathematicians who worked behind the scenes at a segregated Nasa during the tense and ground-breaking 1960s space race. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae make it shine. Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (2017) 12 ◆ 11Pm, ch4 Befuddling sci-fi drama, starring Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan (with a cameo from Rihanna, right) as space agents dragged into an intergalactic plot that gets increasingly bigger and harder to follow.

monday

Murder By Text: Garage Sale Mystery (2017) PG ●

2.15Pm, ch5

Lori Loughlin’s antiques-hunting sleuth, Jennifer Shannon, smells a murderous rat when one of her clients – bass player Lita – commits suicide. Why would Lita quit her upcoming tour by text, and then hang herself?

Fearless (2006) 15

9Pm, ParamounT

Jet Li puts up his dukes in this martial arts epic choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, who brought his expertise to the West in the Matrix films. Li plays a skilled Chinese fighter who goes into exile after killing an opponent, and finally learns about humility and compassion.

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) 12 ◆

9Pm, sky onE

This DC Comics adventure pits the two legendary superheroes against each other, and left many cold. Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill star, with Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (above, with Affleck), in a film that marked Gadot’s debut as the Amazonian.

Black Mass (2015) 15 ◆

9.30Pm, TG4

Johnny Depp plays real-life gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in this drama. In 1970s Boston, the mobster strikes a deal with the FBI in the hope of bringing down their common foe – the Mafia..

Wanted (2008) 18 ▲

11.35Pm, ITV4

Frantic and violent comic-book thriller. James McAvoy stars as an office worker destined for thrills and danger when a woman (Angelina Jolie) informs him that he is to become an assassin – like her,

and like his father.

August: Osage County (2013) 15 ◆ 1.35am, fIlm4

Meryl Streep goes dark in this adaptation of a Pulitzer Prizewinning stage play. The great cast also includes Chris Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch and Julia Roberts as members of a deeply dysfunctional family who are reunited after a tragedy.

TuEsday

Biggles: Adventures In Time (1986) PG ●

7.05Pm, sony classIc

The First World War hero of the books by W.E. Johns meets a time traveller from the 1980s in this enjoyably bonkers adventure. Alex Hyde-White is the salesman flying back to the past and into the life of pilot James Bigglesworth (Neil Dickson, above).

Concrete Plans (2020) 15 ◆

8Pm, sky PrEmIErE

British thriller, set in Wales, where a cocky, odious property developer attempts to cheat the builders who have been doing up his family home out of their money. Kevin Guthrie and Steve Speirs star.

High Plains Drifter (1973) 18

▲ 9Pm, ITV4

Clint Eastwood (left) stars as an avenging angel who rides into a town teeming with wickedness. A hint of the supernatural and a slightly trippy ending make this especially memorable.

Night School (2018) 15 ◆

9Pm, fIlm4

Kevin Hart stars in this comedy as the joker who didn’t think he needed highschool grades to be successful. Out of a job, he is forced into a rethink and heads to night school, where he meets his match in Tiffany Haddish’s no-nonsense teacher.

The Expendables 2 (2012) 15 ◆ 11.30Pm, ch5

The battle-hardened veteran action stars, led by Sylvester Stallone, reunite for a rip-roaring sequel set first in Nepal, and then in Albania. They take on rival mercenaries, led by the aptly named Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme).

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) 15 ◆ 2.15am, ch4

Sprightly comedy drama, based on the memoirs of Kim Barker. Tina Fey stars as the US TV reporter who covered the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, joining hardened veterans including Margot Robbie’s British journalist.

WEdnEsday

The Breadwinner (2018) 12 n 2.45Pm, rTÉ2

The acclaimed animated drama, from Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon and directed by Nora Twomey, tells the story of Parvana, a girl whose father is arrested by the Taliban. She decides to disguise herself as a boy to earn money for her family.

RoboCop (2014) 12 ◆

9Pm, 5sTar

Emphasising hardware and fire power, this remake is stony-faced compared to Paul Verhoeven’s enjoyably OTT, funny and violent original. Joel Kinnaman (below) stars as the rebooted Detroit policeman trying to reconnect with his sidelined humanity.

Mercury Rising (1998) 15 ◆

9Pm, ParamounT

When a nine-year-old autistic boy cracks a government supercode, misguided forces descend on his home to contain the threat. The newly orphaned boy is soon under the protection of Bruce Willis, and the two go on the run from Alec Baldwin’s man in black.

Finding Steve McQueen (2019) 15 ◆ 9.05Pm, sky PrEmIErE

Crime thriller inspired by a real robbery from 1972. Travis Fimmel stars as the man getting the gang together. A big fan of actor Steve McQueen, he plans to steal the supposedly illegal slush fund for President Nixon’s political campaign.

Scream (1996) 18 ▲ 11.40Pm, 5sTar

Influential teen horror that tore up the genre’s cliche-ridden rulebook. A masked killer targets the home town of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell, above), who proves to be a formidable adversary.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour (2013) 18 ▲ 12.55am, ch4

French romantic drama following the intense relationship between Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos), a woman struggling to come to terms with her sexuality, and bold, blue-haired Emma (Lea Seydoux).

THURSDAY

Dan In Real Life (2007) PG

● 4.50PM, SONY MOVIES ★★★ Unsentimental romcom starring Steve Carell as widower Dan Burns (above), getting a second shot at true love, with Juliette Binoche. There’s just one snag – her current boyfriend also happens to be Dan’s little brother.

My Feral Heart (2016) 12

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9PM, BBC4 ★★★★

This British indie drama stars Steven Brandon, an actor with Down syndrome, who brilliantly defies our expectations. Brandon’s Luke is the carer for his mother, not the other way around, and when she dies, his life takes a dramatic turn.

Step Brothers (2008) 15 ◆

10PM, ITV4 ★★★

Will Ferrell (left) and John C. Reilly suffer a serious case of arrested development as the grown men horrified to find out that they are to become step-siblings. In this daft, gross-out-style comedy, refined Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins play the boys’ long-suffering parents.

Nobody’s Fool (2018) 15

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11.05PM, FILM4 ★★★

Tiffany Haddish is the reason to watch this otherwise so-so comedy. She’s Tanya, the recently paroled thorn in the side of her prim sister (Tika Sumpter), who has a rather suspect love life. Can Tanya steer her sis to the right man?

Thelma & Louise (1991) 15

◆ 12.05AM, 5STAR ★★★★

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon star as two of cinema’s most famous fugitives in this much-praised female-led road movie from director Ridley Scott. All credit goes to the two fantastic leads, who bring a downbeat story to life in vibrant style.

Dance With A Stranger (1984) 15

◆ 1.20AM, FILM4 ★★★

Miranda Richardson is superb in this drama, telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England, in 1955. Ruth falls for the wrong man (Rupert Everett), leading her on a downward spiral that ends in tragedy.

FRIDAY

Finding The Way Back (2020) 15 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

In this redemptive drama, Ben Affleck stars as Jack Cunningham, who has hit the bottle after his divorce and is isolating himself from his friends and family. Then, an opportunity arises to coach the basketball team at his old school.

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (2016) 12

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9PM, E4 ★★★

Imaginative fantasy, directed with Gothic flair by Tim Burton. Eva Green (below) is the custodian of a school where young people with unusual gifts hide from the rest of the world – and from Samuel L. Jackson’s villain. Asa Butterfield is the boy who gets drawn in.

The Mountain Between Us (2017) 12 ◆ 9.35PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★★

Idris Elba and Kate Winslet star in this far-fetched but engaging romantic adventure based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Charles Martin. Elba is a neurosurgeon and Winslet a bride-to-be who are left stranded in the wilderness together after their private plane crashes.

Maps To The Stars (2014) 18

▲ 11.20PM, BBC2 ★★★

The luxurious Hollywood Hills are the home of decadent dysfunction in cult director David Cronenberg’s dark satire, starring Robert Pattinson (above), Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack and Julianne Moore.

Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) 12 ◆ 11.20PM, CH4 ★★★

Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) suffers a major wardrobe malfunction in this enjoyable sequel. Can the Bellas sing their way back to the top at the A Cappella World Championships?

Blades Of The Immortal (2017) 18 ▲

11.25PM, FILM4 ★★★

Japanese director Takashi Miike (Audition) is behind this violent fantasy. It follows an immortal warrior who dedicates himself to revenge.

SATURDAY

Daddy’s Home (2015) 12 ◆

9:45PM, RTE 2 ★★★

A mild-mannered stepfather desperately tries to keep the respect of his wife’s children when their biological father returns. Comedy, starring Will Ferrell (above).

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) PG

● 7.05PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★★ Jack Black returns for the animated sequel as the voice of Po. This time around, he’s teaming up with his long-lost father to train other pandas to defend their country.

The Matchmaker (1997) 15

◆ 9.30PM, TG4 ★★★

Janeane Garofalo stars in this romantic comedy as a ruthless American political aide who arrives in an Irish hamlet in the middle of a matchmaking festival – and a local is determined to find love for her.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

(1991) 15◆

11:05PM, UTV ★★★

A cyborg is sent back in time to protect the future saviour of the human race from a shape-changing assassin. Sci-fi adventure, with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Love & Mercy (2014) 12

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11.20PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Paul Dano and John Cusack (below) share the role of Brian Wilson in a biopic that follows the Beach Boys’ resident genius at two different times in his life – the making of Pet Sounds and a new romance in the 1980s.

The Commune (2016) 15 ◆

1:20AM, BBC 2 ★★★

A family create a commune in 1970s Copenhagen, but an affair in the household threatens to tear the collective apart. Drama, with Ulrich Thomsen.